Activating the textures of Post Digital aesthetics

2019-08-05 Thread Nancy Mauro-Flude
-contemporary-art- and-new-media-31944 Her R/W aspiration was positive – did we see call outs for Linux install parties – artist residency etc. on E-FLUX at CUNY? I wonder if Artforum could have listed an article to counter this tried text in their archive? Instead of erase, lengthy discussions of Post

Re: Post-digital- Cyberclasm of the 1960s

2014-03-11 Thread d.garcia
Browsing through the files of Amsterdam?s Institute for Social History (as you do) I found Tjebbe van Tijan?s excellent essay written in 1998. Below is a short taster. Full essay to be found: http://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/digitial-ways-forgetting.pdf Digital ways of Forgett

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-11 Thread Griffis, Ryan
This discussion, especially related to questions of "mindful disconnection," recalls Sigfried Giedion's 1948 "anonymous history," "Mechanization Takes Command." http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb01139 As he put it: "Never has mankind possessed so many instruments for

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-11 Thread John Hopkins
Rousseau comes fleetingly to mind: "The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." And

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-11 Thread d.garcia
Felix Wrote > Where the terms makes no sense, in my view (and also in Florian's), > is sociologically. The most powerful forces that transform globalized > societies, are all dependent on, and amplified by, digital > technologies. If anything, we are in the middle of the historical > run of this

Re: Post-digital - Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside (with Howard Rheingold)

2014-03-11 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mainly agree. The realistic take has always been and should always be: Whatever > technology and/or social process that can be used to strengthen > the interests of strategic power, will be used to strengthen the > interests of strategic power. > > Is a very apt description of what is the main

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-10 Thread mp
On 10/03/14 11:57, kontakt |�florian kuhlmann wrote: > Am 10.03.2014 um 09:51 schrieb mp: > >> and this is not a joke either: communal/collective spaces for >> communication can be really good. A place to meet. A digital >> square. > > i have to admit i less and less believe in this. the only t

Re: Post-digital - Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside (with Howard Rheingold)

2014-03-10 Thread Eric Kluitenberg
Dear nettimers, While reading another excellent discussion on the post-digital / disconnectivity on nettime, I was reminded of a piece I co-authored with Howard Rheingold slightly over seven years ago for the theme issue Hybrid Space of Open, Journal for Art and the Public Domain. At the time I

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-10 Thread kontakt | florian kuhlmann
Am 10.03.2014 um 09:51 schrieb mp: > and this is not a joke either: communal/collective spaces for > communication can be really good. A place to meet. A digital square. i have to admit i less and less believe in this. the only thing i am strongly recognizing is, that friends, people and socitey

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-10 Thread mp
On 10/03/14 07:29, Sandra Braman wrote: > 2% of people -- across socio-economic class, meaning it isn't about > cost -- do not want a telephone in the home > > having lived that way for many years, i can report that the > pleasures of it are quite real as long as you have somewhere to go to s

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-10 Thread Sandra Braman
.@kein.org Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:58:27 PM Subject: Re: Post-digital Quoth Felix Stalder: > Enzensberger's text was just a joke, and the FAZ printed > it because it would stir controversy, not because it had much to offer > intellectually. Was it really just a joke? I'm no

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-09 Thread Nick
Quoth Felix Stalder: > Enzensberger's text was just a joke, and the FAZ printed > it because it would stir controversy, not because it had much to offer > intellectually. Was it really just a joke? I'm not so sure dismissing it as that is appropriate. Sure it necessarily isn't a deep critique of

Re: Post-digital

2014-03-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
> On 03/03/2014 08:19 PM, Florian Cramer wrote: > >> # What is 'Post-digital'? > > Florian and I have been talking for a long time now about the > notion of "post-digital", with me being rather skeptical about its > usefulness. I still am, but Flori

Post-digital

2014-03-09 Thread Felix Stalder
On 03/03/2014 08:19 PM, Florian Cramer wrote: > # What is 'Post-digital'? Florian and I have been talking for a long time now about the notion of "post-digital", with me being rather skeptical about its usefulness. I still am, but Florian's text clarifies a lot for